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Friends and Politics, Part 1: Saul Bellow. The Nobel Prize-winner and I shared a love of literature and of Yiddish, but our friendship was tested by decades-long disagreements over politics.

Israel’s leading military ethicist, Moshe Halbertal, argues that in some cases a pre-emptive nuclear strike might be moral while nuclear retaliation might not. An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in U.S. history, hails not from the urban melting pot but from a Southern, explicitly Christian America

The short-lived American Football League, merged into the NFL after Super Bowl IV, invented the modern media spectacle that is pro football. And three Jews invented the show that was the AFL.

A Brooklyn rabbi thought he could swindle hedge-fund king Steven Cohen by playing on his Judaism. It was a bad bet.

The success of Subliminal, Israel’s most popular rapper, is a reflection of the Jewish state’s conservative moment

The Man Booker Prize winner profiles hardbat ping-pong champ Marty Reisman, who never lost his taste for winning

Was Meir Kahane’s murder al-Qaida’s earliest attack on U.S. soil?

It wasn’t just a case of bullying when a 16-year-old Jewish boy was beaten up in a small German town where hate runs deep

The odyssey of Jack Tytell: An intimate look at the accused Jewish killer

In Medellín, Jewish converts try to leave the Inquisition, and Colombia’s civil war, behind

French Jews making aliyah go from one conflict zone to another

When I lived upstairs from the Jewish Defense Organization, Hitler was a presence on the Lower East Side

Malcolm Hoenlein has served as the unofficial king of the Jews for the past three decades, but a combination of forces threatens his rule

Part 3: At Woodstock Village, the three Israelis get some room to work things out